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Show INCREASES THE EGG YIELD Math Diet Mad Up Solely With Corn-meal Corn-meal Mixed With Warm Milk Give Excellent Reiult. A mash diet made up solely of corn-aical corn-aical mixed with warm milk n fed Id a pen of layers, mostly 1 chorus, alth the following result: first, a emarkable I in rcaiee In their egg yield; e ond, mi Increase In their weight; third, freiu-nt aud sudden death from apoplexy. These results were due to the high Vit leiilug food given, and proved con- v(i.,'i--V,.,'Tk jfir. Leghorn Cockerel. Muslvely the grave danger enrouiv tered by adopting such a system of feeding. A meal mash In the morning and whole or cracked corn at noon and sight brought about the same results. These experiments were tried during dur-ing the spring month before the fowls had access to yards or free range. Later In tho season when on free range tho same rations were fed with the rnnm result, but attended with fewer deaths. There Is danger In feeding the flock loo highly, or. In other words, upon food too rl h In blood and fat making Ingredients. The lirst shipment of leghorn fowl to America from Leghorn, Italy, was lu the year lNIU. The variety Immediately Im-mediately became popular from Its prollllc laying and lion sitting quail-tics, quail-tics, holding the same place among; poultry that the Jersey holds among cattle. leghorns are excellent foragers, for-agers, of lively, active, restless dispositions dispo-sitions am will pick up a good part of their living, thriving best when al- lowed a wide range. ' |